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TIL There is a fruit in South Africa that tastes like chocolate pudding...

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b9LZj TIL of Tillie Anderson; the Swedish seamstress-turned-undisputed women’s cycling champion of the 1890s, who won all but seven of her 130 races before women’s races ceased in 1902. She was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2000, 35 years after her death at age 90.
e0jQ5 TIL that from 1908-1940, Sears sold home kits where you could order a home from their catalog, have the materials shipped to you and build it yourself. The homes ranged from $900-$5,000.
QJ6l6 TIL that a copy of the Tang-dynasty Chinese version of the Diamond Sūtra (11th May 868) is the earliest dated printed book. It is also the first known creative work with an explicit public-domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution."
1orV TIL the title of the Italian film, Life is Beautiful, came from a Leon Trotsky quote. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, “life is beautiful”.
Mxjm TIL that the Big Bang was first theorized by a Catholic priest